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This resource is a large collection of games and activities that are fitness focused. Most of these activities are geared towards cardio fitness.

This resource includes both written and visual descriptions. 

This free lesson plan from Teacher.org allows students to practice coordination while staying physical.  Students will be able to demonstrate age-appropriate hand-eye coordination while taking turns with classmates.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

This high school lesson provides an opportunity for students to learn more about and reflect upon athletes who have taken stands on political issues.

This resource is informational material that can be used by the teacher to incorporate into their lesson planning. This text defines flexibility, identifies how to build flexibility, explains how much stretching is enough, and covers the benefits of flexibility. This resource includes pictures, important terminology, and review questions. 

Rhythms should be taught like other sport skills. Avoid striving for perfection so students know it is acceptable to make mistakes. Teach a variety of dances rather than one or two in-depth in case some students find it difficult to master a specific dance. Make dances easy for students to learn by implementing the techniques found in this resource. 

This resource includes choreography for 6 folk dances. 

This activity includes three levels of passing: rookie, starter, and all-star. Students move with various dribbling skills and pass with other students. Throughout the activity, dribbling/movements can be changed by using various offensive tactics and teaching ways to create open spaces. Later in the activity, defense can be added to further teach both offensive and defensive tactics. This activity is designed to teach basketball but can be adjusted to teach many sports that utilize team defensive and offensive tactics.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

The purpose of this activity is to practice striking (racket or paddle) skills.

The purpose of this activity is to improve the skill to strike an object with a paddle.

The field is divided into 8 lanes. A defensive and an offensive player are placed in each of the 8 lanes. A goalkeeper for each team is also positioned in front of the goal area. Players may not leave their lane during play. A shot on goal may not be taken until a minimum of two passes has been completed. This rule encourages passing to someone in a better position before taking a shot on goal. Encourage players to maintain their spacing during play. 

This video is part of the Healthy Kids project. It quickly reminds students that mistakes are a natural part of learning. It’s important to speak with kindness, encouragement, and compassion, whether we are talking to ourselves or to others.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit. 

During class time the students will work with a partner and discuss how they handle stress in their everyday lives. Using what they have learned in the lesson the students will list three positive effects that exercise has on mental health and prepare a class presentation.

Parkour is an art of movement in which you train the body and mind to overcome obstacles. It emphasizes strength, flexibility, balance, body control, creativity, fluidity, discipline, and precision. Parkour movements include running, jumping, vaulting, climbing, balancing, and crawling. Parkour training focuses on safety, responsibility, overcoming fear, and self-improvement.

This resource provides an interactive guide to engage, explore, apply, and reflect on heart rate. Resting and target heart rate activities are included in addition to guiding application questions for each. 

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

It’s a huge commitment to be an ER doc. But how many people can say they save lives and really mean it? Yamini talks about the rewards – and pressures – of her job.

The purpose of this activity is for students to be able to grasp the concept of personal space, direction, using locomotor skills, and different pathways. Their goal is to find their own pathway through the "forest" without touching any of the obstacles (thorns, rocks, or tree limbs). They can cross the bridges (aerobic steps) when they come to them. Students focus on personal space (by not being next to someone), correctly performing various locomotor skills (skipping, walking, running, etc.), and finding different pathways through the "forest".

This is a video of a dribbling practice game. Players will partner up so there will be pairs spread out in the gym. In each pair, one player will start as the dribbler and have a basketball (or soccer ball, depending on which game you want to play). The other player will place a hula hoop on the floor and stand with at least one foot inside of it. The player inside the hoop will try to knock away the balls of other players who come too near (remember that one foot must always be inside the hoop). If a player’s ball gets knocked away, they simply retrieve it and continue dribbling.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Looking for Locomotor Skills GIFs? This folder contains GIFS that you can use as you wish along with the video version and a Slides file with all GIFs embedded. Make a copy and edit as needed! This resource can be used when demonstrating hopping, galloping, and sliding.

The fact that run/walks are classic fundraising events for nonprofit organizations doesn’t make them any easier to plan and execute. Like any event, attendance and fundraising results are very important, but run/walks involve extra challenges and expenses including marketing, registration, and safety. This guide will walk you through the process of organizing a charity run/walk event for your organization, covering logistics like choosing a date, location, and t-shirts, along with volunteer management, budgeting, and promotion.

Help students learn multiple concepts of football in a modified game setting.  Students will be placed in groups of 3.  One will be the Quarterback, one will be the Wide Receiver, and the other will be the Defensive Back also known as Corner Back.  Each group of three will have a "playbook" of 3-4 plays. 

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Creative Mode Fitness is a fun and vigorously active way to teach students critical fitness concepts and basic fitness planning. It’s designed to be used with heart rate monitor technology—preferably a team heart rate monitoring system, such as Polar GoFit.

The main objective of this module is to teach students fundamental fitness concepts through fun and vigorously active learning activities. Students will produce safe and appropriate training routines in a group setting, as well as personal Tabata routines that they can perform safely at home.

Learn the difference between strength, endurance, and power in this lesson. This lesson can be organized as self-paced for students to enjoy on their own or teachers could use the slide presentation to pace the instruction of this content. Students will find out how body fat impacts both fitness and health, the different types of exercise, and how to create an activity plan.  

In this lesson, students will work on deceiving their opponents, defending their territories, and maintaining a rally. This idea can be modified for use in a variety of sports, including badminton, tennis, volleyball, etc.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Fit cards are a tool to help you get (or stay) in shape at home or at the gym. Contrary to popular belief you don’t need a lot of time and equipment to get stronger, more toned, and to feel and look better.

Social Media for Students has been designed to give students the information that they need to develop responsible social media habits.  This course illustrates the long-term consequences that irresponsible social media usage can have on a student’s educational, athletic, and professional careers.  It shows students ways in which they can use social media to promote their team, school, community, and their own personal brand.  Social media has turned every user into a mass communicator.  Learning how to skillfully and safely utilize it now, will greatly help you as you continue to use social media in the future.